Storyline
On the day of Alice's engagement party, as she is being proposed to, Alice is distracted by a white rabbit in the bushes. She cannot deny her curiosity and walks off to follow the white rabbit. And as the story goes falls into the rabbit hole ending up in the magical world of "Underland".
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter is convincing. Depp is always good at portraying these bizarre yet likable characters. Why doesn't he do a movie with a serious role? You know change it up a bit.
Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen is brilliant as usual. She embodied evil whenever she shouted "off with their heads!" The White Queen played by Anne Hathaway seemed somewhat bored and disjointed in each scene.
I was disappointed to not see the Walrus and the Carpenter. I think they would of translated well in 3D, but its Burton's movie and vision. My favorite character was the smoking Blue caterpillar( Alan Rickman) who provided Alice with wisdom and direction. Let's not forget Alice, played by Mia Wasikowska who at times seemed to have trouble evoking any emotion.
Overview
Despite the few shortcomings, Alice in Wonderland is well worth the 109 minutes of escapism into an enchanting world. A must see in Real 3D. My one knock on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is that the dialog was somewhat weak and didn't seem to make sense. Maybe that was because of the nonsensical nature of Underland.
Even though the movie was visually stunning I hope that Hollywood is not using 3D technology to try to fool us into thinking it will make up for bad dialog and bad acting. A good story expressed through believable characters along with compelling dialog will trump technology every time.
